Kenya: Number of Kenyans Facing Starvation Rises By 1.4m

United Nations World Food Programme

The number of Kenyans in need of relief food has risen to 2.7 million from 1.3 million last year, a government agency has said.

IITA boss warns against paying lip service to agriculture

Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole; Director General, I ITA, Dr Nteranya Sanginga; and the Director of Policy and Program, World Food Programme, Mr Stanlake Samkange in Abuja.

There are negative consequences if Africa continued to pay lip service to agriculture, and failed to invest in the sector, the Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr Nteranya Sanginga has warned.

FG inaugurates committee on the restructuring of Agric Bank

Chief Audu Ogbeh

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh  has inaugurated the National Council on Privatization (NCP), Steering committee on the restructuring and recapitalization of the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) and the project delivery team  at the minister’s conference room, Abuja. The launch brought together stakeholders from different sectors to oversee the affairs of the bank, as it is being repositioned by the newly appointed committee members.

Kenaf production, a veritable platform says vice president's aide

Kenaf

Stakeholders, including agriculture experts, agronomists, academia, political appointees, financial experts, farmers and other relevant organizations recently met  in Ibadan to discuss ways of improving production of Kenaf and improve revenue generation among farmers.

JUST NAME IT - WE'VE DONE IT IN "HIS" NAME- By Sani Sagagi of Sasakawa 2000

Sani Sagagi

We made plans, held daily meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences, bazaars, exhibitions, press conferences, foreign trips, study tours and visits, uncountable foreign investor-teams came, we conducted baselines, thematic, commodities and markets studies,

Rwanda: Madhvani Group Speaks Out on Plans to Satisfy Country's Sugar Demands

Sugar

In recent years, sugar production in the country has not matched supply which has in turn had an impact on the trade deficit.

Bayelsa Farmers Acquires 40, 000 Hectares Of Land For Rice Farming

Rice

Rice Farmers in Bayelsa State has confirmed the acquisition of over  40, 000 hectares of land in the efforts to boost local cultivation of rice in the state.

South Africa: Poultry Task Team Making Headway

The Department of Trade and Industry

Pretoria — The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) says the task team set up to deal with challenges in the domestic poultry industry has made progress since its inception.

Adamawa Trains 240 Farmers On Dry-season Farming

Adamawa farmers

The Adamawa Government on Friday said it had commenced the   training of 240 farmers in various dry season farming.

‘I came to Nigeria to see what is common and different between the Nigeria and Burkina’ Faso agriculture, so that we will see if there is room for exchange …’

Ouedraogo Inoussa is the director of LAVODEC (Entrepec agricole) and President de L’union Nationale des Cooperatives des Entrepreneurs Agricole du Burkina’Faso, and Alhaji Yakubu Mishelia Debiro, MD Debiro Farms

Ouedraogo Inoussa is the director of LAVODEC (Entrepec agricole) and President de L’union Nationale des Cooperatives des Entrepreneurs Agricole du Burkina’Faso. He was in Nigeria to buy ginger and also see how his country could benefit from Nigeria and vice versa especially in cooperative related matters. In this interview he tells how cooperative administration is structured in Burkina Faso. Listen to Audio Interview.